Oxfam Australia

Oxfam partner Woza Moya provides care and support to people affected by HIV and AIDS in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. In these videos, their community care workers talk about their work.

Who would’ve thought that one buffalo could make such a difference to the life of a poor Cambodian family? Agricultural labourer – and face of our Buffalo Bank Appeal – Yuh Met describes how his life has improved since experiencing the ‘buffalo effect’.

In the midst of Hollywood award season, comes a different kind of accolade: the news that Oxfam has been named number three in The Global Journal’s Top 100 Best NGOs. Here’s what Oxfam Canada’s ED Robert Fox has to say about it.

It’s easy to get caught up in the material anxieties of the holiday season. For a bit of perspective we bring you the story of Maree, a 23-year-old Cambodian woman living with her mother in the Takeo district of Cambodia.

Oxfam helped Bhoomy Deungmarny and the members of her village in Laos to build a gravity-fed water pump, and taught them how to maintain the pump system. The pump saves Bhoomy four hours a day that she used to spend hauling water from the nearby river; now she has the time (and the water) to grow enough food to feed her family all year.

Vhutshilo Mountain School runs a paediatric ARV program in the village of Tshikombani in Limpopo Province, South Africa, which helps 31 children between the ages of three and 16 years – 29 of whom are on ARV medication.

With visions of conflict and chaos troubling her mind, Oxfam’s Caroline Berger was a little nervous about visiting Somaliland – neighbour to strife-torn Somalia. Instead, she found a peaceful country in the midst of a forgotten crisis.

Thanks to a great new literacy program, women in PNG’s remote East Sepik region are not only learning to read, but gaining a whole new perspective on life – and their place in it.